Bed-spring.



E. L. FARROW & C. R. BARKER.

BED "SPRING.

APPLICATION FILED APR.27. 1914.

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E. L. FARROW & C. R. BARKER. BED SPRING.

APPLICATION FILED APR.27. 1914. 1,143, 179., Patented June 15,1915.

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ERNEST L. FARROW AND CHARLES R. BARKER, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIG-NOESTO THE CLEVELAND WIRE SPRING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15, 1915.

Application filed April 27, 1914. Serial No. 834,765.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that we, Ennnsr L. FAnnow andCHARLES R. BARKER, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland,in the county of Cuyahoga'and State of Ohio, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Bed-Springs, of which the following is aspecification. 7

This invention appertains to bed springs and the invention consists inthe construction substantially as shown and described and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the inventionomitting a few springs in one corner of the view. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation and Fig. 8 is an end ele- Fig. 4 is a view corresponding toFig. 2 in the parts shown by omitting the outer frame. Fig. 5 is an'edgeelevation of the said outer frame, seen in plan in Fig. 1. Sheet 2, Fig.6 is a bottom view of the inner frame and its springs. Fig. 7 is a planView, considerably enlarged, of one corner of the complete structure andcomprising portions of both frames. Fig. 8 is a section view andelevation of the portion of the structure seen in Fig. 7. V

The complete article of manufacture as thus shown comprises an outer ormain frame A of skeleton form and an inner frame B positioned bodilywithin frame A and carrying spiral springs 2, and the said frames areindependent and separable as members, so that the frame B can bedetached and bodily removed from the frame -A when desired. The outerframe A is constructed with two side rails, pipes or tubes 3 and two endcross-bars 4 which are mounted upon arms 5 at ends of the side rails 3.The said ends 4 are preferably of angle iron and rigidly secured on theouter extremities of the arms 5 which are preferably curved to thesegment of a circle and extend upward and outward endwise from the sidetubes 3 on which they are socketed, as seen at 6, Figs. 1 and 7, orotherwise firmly engaged on the ends of said tubes. The elevation andlocation of the cross-bars 4 in re spect to the longitudinal side rails3 is seen particularly in Fig. 2 and also in Fig. 8, which is about halfsize, and the inner frame B is suspended by four springs 7 in the samehorizontal plane as the side bars and is of substantially the samelength thereas.

The invention resides primarily in the two frames A and B and the meansby which they are combined and made complete as an article ofmerchandise, and the spiral springs 7 by which frame B is suspended fromframe A constitute an important part of the complete invention. Saidsprings 7 are inclined to substantially the same angle as the arms 5,whereby end swaying of the frame B is eliminated, and these springs aremainly depended upon to support and carry the bed frame B with all itspossible burden of springs and occupants. However, horizontal springs 8are also employed, which connect a wire mesh 9 over the springs 2 withthe cross-bars 4 at frequent intervals, and of course said springs 8also contribute to take care of the load upon the bed bottom, but thesesprings being horizon tal are not particularly active as verticalsupports. The wire mesh 9 is interwoven with the springs 2 and borderedby a comparatively heavy wire 10 to which the inner ends of thehorizontal springs 8 are at tached, and the outer ends of springs 8 aredetachably secured within holes in crossbars 4. The spiral supportingsprings 22 rest on angle-iron cross-bars 12 connecting the longitudinalside bars 13 of frame B, and the suspensory springs 7 are connected attheir bottom ends with the extremities of said side bars 13.

The springs 7 are necessarily of considerable strength and underconstant tension to exert uplift of the bed frame B relatively to thewire mesh 9, and the effect is to compress the spiral springs 2 andraise and bow the middle portion of the spring bottom, and

a further effect is to stretch the horizontal springs 8 and the Wiremesh 9. The side tubes A also are somewhat bowed upward in their middleas compared with the ends, Fig. 5, for bracing effect.

7 The spiral springs 2 and wire mesh 9 and the border wire 10 and theinner frame B on which the springs 2 are supported comprise a spring bedbottom or mattress, which is spring supported in turn by the springs 7and 8 attached to the frame A; and the latter frame is adapted to fitWithin and rest upon the side rails of a bed. The complete bed spring asshown and described is exceptionally strong and durable, and is capableof uniformly distributing the weights and strains to which it may besubjected while permitting unequal loads at ends, an inner framesuspended by springs at its four corners from the corners of saidskeleton frame, and a spring mattress mounted on said inner frame havinga wire Woven top connected at intervals by means of springs with theends of said outer frame.

3. In a bed spring, a rigid outer frame comprising ends raised inrespect to the sides thereof and outward therefrom and outwardlyprojecting arms at an inclinaframe Within said main frame, and a spring1 at each corner thereof suspending said frame from the endsofsaid mainframe.

a In testimony whereof We afiix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

. ERNEST L. FARROWL CHARLES BARKER.

Witnesses: v

H. E. V. HARMER, G S. TENESY.

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